The Krio Of Sierra Leone
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The Krio Of Sierra Leone
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Author : Akintola J. G. Wyse
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 1989
The Krio Of Sierra Leone written by Akintola J. G. Wyse and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Creole (Sierra Leone) categories.
Wyse interprets the history of the Krio from their earliest days as a collective entity to the present, charting their rise and decline as a political force and examining the characteristic ethos of the people as expressed in their social, economic, and above all, educational aspirations.
New Perspectives On The Sierra Leone Krio
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Author : Mac Dixon-Fyle
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
New Perspectives On The Sierra Leone Krio written by Mac Dixon-Fyle and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone - an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent - is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World returnees and autochthonous populations of West Africa. Although its Nigerian connections are often acknowledged, insufficient attention has been paid to the indigenous Sierra Leonean roots of this community. This anthology addresses this problem, while celebrating the complexities of Krio identity and Krio interaction with other ethnic groups and nationalities in the British colonial experience.
The Krio Of West Africa
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Author : Gibril R. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-15
The Krio Of West Africa written by Gibril R. Cole and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-15 with History categories.
Sierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the “Krio,” descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America, England, and other areas of West Africa, who settled Freetown, beginning in the late eighteenth century. Two foundational and enduring assumptions have characterized this historiography: the concepts of “Creole” and “Krio” are virtually interchangeable; and the community to which these terms apply was and is largely self-contained, Christian, and English in worldview. In a bold challenge to the long-standing historiography on Sierra Leone, Gibril Cole carefully disentangles “Krio” from “Creole,” revealing the diversity and permeability of a community that included many who, in fact, were not Christian. In Cole’s persuasive and engaging analysis, Muslim settlers take center stage as critical actors in the dynamic growth of Freetown’s Krio society. The Krio of West Africa represents the results of some of the first sustained historical research to be undertaken since the end of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. It speaks clearly and powerfully not only to those with an interest in the specific history of Sierra Leone, but to histories of Islam in West Africa, the British empire, the Black Atlantic, the Yoruban diaspora, and the slave trade and its aftermath.
Women And The Amistad Connection
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Author : Filomina Chioma Steady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Women And The Amistad Connection written by Filomina Chioma Steady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society is a welcome relief from reports of the ten-year rebel war in Sierra Leone and gives a glimpse of life in a part of Sierra Leone during its more customary periods of peace. It is an important and timely record of a people whose lives may have been changed forever. This rather unique group, the Krios of Sierra Leone is presented from a perspective in which women are central. It uses an indigenous model and allows the women to "speak for themselves" while refraining from imposing extemal theoretical and other explanatory models. The study examines the history and development of a pluri-cultural society representing African, European and New World influences which resulted from the repatriation to Freetown, Sierra Leone of freed slaves from different parts of the world. The role of women in maintaining the kinship and household structure; life cycle events and rituals are central to understanding this complex and dynamic society. The study deals with the history and current situation of women and their informal and formal associations including their world view. It argues that Krio society is both "sui generis" and "diasporic" because of its cultural links to both Africa and to the African Diaspora. It examines the elements that constitute a rather unique Krio cultural model representing its social organization, kinship, the family and household, life-cycle and special events. This pluri-cultural feature, it is argued, best explains the resilience of this group to many challenges over the years, including the recent challenge of a protracted and brutal rebel war. The book will be a valuable contribution to African studies,women's studies and anthropology because of its uniqueness. It is the first comprehensive and systematic study of the social organization and culture of this group from a perspective in which women are central. It also elaborates on many of the previous studies on the Krios previously referred to as "Creoles". It will augment the limited material available on women in the African Diaspora. No study of Africa, the African Diaspora or women in Africa would be complete without the important dimension that the study brings to the literature.
Krio Women Of Sierra Leone
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Author : Filomina Chioma Steady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Krio Women Of Sierra Leone written by Filomina Chioma Steady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
An Anthology Of Krio Poetry
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Author : Kamarah, Sheik Umarr
language : en
Publisher: Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Release Date : 2015-08-06
An Anthology Of Krio Poetry written by Kamarah, Sheik Umarr and has been published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Poetry categories.
Krio is one of Sierra Leone’s national languages and a member of the family of languages called Creoles. This anthology of Krio poetry illustrates how far the language has traveled. The themes range from politics to the ongoing changes in the structure of the Krio languages. The variety of authors, who come from difference ethnic backgrounds including native speakers of the language illustrates how the it has become established as a vehicle through which the national character can emerge. The orthography used in this anthology is recommended by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in Sierra Leone.
The Mouton World Atlas Of Variation In English
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Author : Bernd Kortmann
language : en
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Release Date : 2012
The Mouton World Atlas Of Variation In English written by Bernd Kortmann and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with English language categories.
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.
Sierra Leone Krio
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Author : Selase W. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-08-15
Sierra Leone Krio written by Selase W. Williams and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-15 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and systematic description and analysis of the language, culture, and traditions of the Sierra Leone Krio people. Through this multifaceted approach, the authors bring significant new insights into the history and the establishment of Krio society, a better understanding of the syntactic structures and semantic elements in the Krio language, and greater recognition, use, and role of oral traditions in the everyday lives of the people. The Krio folktales, parables, and riddles presented in the book represent the centuries’ old West African wisdom and communal lessons for young and old. The authors celebrate Krio creativity as reflected in their fashion, music, and poetry. Featured here are some previously unpublished Krio poems, as well as Jamaican Patois poems that have been translated for the first time in Krio and English. These latter poems reveal the similarities in the themes, social commentary, and African continuities witnessed across the diaspora. Refuting the claims that the linguistic foundation of Krio is English, the authors provide concrete evidence that its underlying structure of Krio is based in languages belonging to the Kwa language family, represented by Yoruba, Igbo, and Akan. Unique in our analysis of Krio language is the demonstration of substantive linguistic contributions from at least one indigenous local language, that being Temne, and opens up a whole new area for future research.
Krio Salad
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Author : Daphne Barlatt Pratt
language : en
Publisher: Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Release Date : 2017-08-13
Krio Salad written by Daphne Barlatt Pratt and has been published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-13 with categories.
Daphne Pratt presents a medley of Krio folktales, original poems, proverbs and other features of the language, as well as a teaching manual on how to read and write Sierra Leone Krio. From the last quarter of the 18th century, for about 150 years, Krio was mostly only a spoken language, and when attempts were made at writing it, there was no standardised orthography, so writers wrote it differently, each one making up his or her own method. However, since 1984, there has been a standardised Krio orthography recognised and recommended by Sierra Leone's Ministry of Education. A Krio-English dictionary compiled by Clifford N. Fyle and Eldred D. Jones was published by the Oxford University Press in 1980. The new testament of the Bible had been published in the 1980's, and the complete Bible in Krio was published in 2013. Krio has been taught in all government secondary schools since 1996 when the Lekon secondary text books in Krio were published. The Krio dictionary, the Krio text books used in schools, and the Krio Bible are all written in the standardised Krio approved by the Ministry of Education. A guide to reading and writing Krio is included in this publication for those who already understand and speak Krio fairly well, but are not confident in reading or writing the standardised Krio. It is hoped that all who wish to write Krio, will learn and strive to use the approved standardised Krio, to maintain the uniformity which prevails in written languages.
The Temne Of Sierra Leone
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Author : Joseph J. Bangura
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-09
The Temne Of Sierra Leone written by Joseph J. Bangura and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with History categories.
An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony. It is ideal for students, researchers, and scholars interested in the foundations of colonial Sierra Leone and its social, political and economic history, and Colonial Studies and African history more widely.